Astronomy

Credit: NAOJ Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), the wide field camera mounted on the prime focus of the Subaru Telescope, is used…

Credit: This image is free for use if used in direct connection with this story but image copyright and credit must be University of Warwick/Mark Garlick An exploding white dwarf star blasted itself out of its orbit with another…

Credit: Dr Jacob Kegerreis, Durham University The giant impacts that dominate late stages of planet formation have a wide range of consequences for young planets and their atmospheres, according to new research. Research led…

The International Gemini Observatory and W. M. Keck Observatory catch short gamma-ray burst within hoursCredit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Paterson & W. Fong, Northwestern University; Image Processing: Travis…

The international Gemini Observatory detects optical afterglow of short gamma-ray burst within hoursCredit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard/K. Paterson & W. Fong (Northwestern University), NAOJ/NASA's…

Astronomers zoom in on black hole with one of the lowest masses ever observed in nearby "ghost" galaxyCredit: Cardiff University A research team led by Cardiff University scientists say they are closer to understanding how a…

A Princeton astrophysicist sharpens our view of orbital architecturesCredit: Image by Daniel Tamayo Why don't planets collide more often? How do planetary systems -- like our solar system or multi-planet systems around other stars…

Credit: Martin Gembec Astrophysicists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Russia), South Korea, and the USA appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggesting carbon indicates time comets have spent in…

KyotoU's new Seimei telescope detects enormous 'superflare' on nearby starCredit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Japan -- The cold, dark chaos of space is filled with mystery. Fortunately, the ways in which we can…

Credit: Courtesy of Arecibo Observatory/University of Central Florida - William Gonzalez and Andy Torres. An important breakthrough in how we can understand dead star collisions and the expansion of the Universe has been made by an…

Caltech researchers use deep learning and supercomputing to identify Nyx, a product of a long-ago galaxy mergerCredit: Hopkins Research Group, Caltech Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object in the sky.…

Credit: FEFU press office Astrophysicists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with colleagues from Russia and oversea have revealed that large and dense particles with irregular shapes possess a 10 nm silicate feature…

"Light squeezer" reduces quantum noise in lasers, could enhance quantum computing and gravitational-wave detection. Physicists at MIT have designed a quantum "light squeezer" that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser beam by 15…

Credit: Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place--filled with dark and icy bodies with nicknames like Sedna, Biden and The Goblin, each of which span several hundred miles across.…

Credit: Guillaume Seigneuret and NASA As dying stars take their final few breaths of life, they gently sprinkle their ashes into the cosmos through the magnificent planetary nebulae. These ashes, spread via stellar winds, are…

Credit: College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2020 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship to Dr. Martha P. Haynes, Goldwin…

Proposed work is expected to significantly increase knowledge of dark matterCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The John Templeton Foundation has supported research on a diverse range of subjects including…

Credit: NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI) Lithium is becoming common in our everyday lives. It is the key ingredient in the batteries of our mobile phones and electric vehicles, but have you ever wondered where it comes from?  A new…

Credit: Animation: Dhanesh Krishnarao / University of Wisconsin-Madison Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way--a discovery reported in the July 3 edition of the journal Science Advances--could yield new…

Credit: Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Mark A. Garlick Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from the…